Category: 2008
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November 13, 2009
I didn't hear very many good things about this movie, so I decided to put it off for the cheap theater, but then I think it wasn't exactly popular at the cheap theater, so I decided to put it off for DVD. But then when I really thought about it, I reali…
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September 2, 2009
Here's another documentary I checked out recently, about, well, the business of the birthing process. It operates from the premise that people in America may not know everything they should know about giving birth, and that perhaps the popular methods o…
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Posted by Jeri at 06:00:00 pm | movies, netflix/tivo, 2008 | 1 comment »
July 30, 2009
Here comes another round of movie reviews from the past couple of months. Hold on to your knickers!
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991)
This tells you how far behind I am in reviews, Amy! We watched this a while back with Ryan and A…
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Posted by Jeri at 02:56:35 pm | movies, netflix/tivo, 2008, with the agadonis, 2009 | 11 comments »
July 13, 2009
Just a quick review for a quick and fun movie: Ghost Town. The movie starts off with Greg Kinnear's death. That's no spoiler. He dies and has unfinished business with the wife he left behind. As it turns out, there are tons of ghosts walking around w…
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Posted by Jeri at 04:42:42 pm | movies, 2008 | 1 comment »
May 28, 2009
In Frozen River, Melissa Leo stars as Ray, a woman whose husband has stolen the family's money for their new double-wide trailer and left the family. She works at a bargain store, it's almost Christmas, the kids have almost nothing, and if she doesn't c…
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Posted by Jeri at 03:00:37 pm | movies, netflix/tivo, 2008 | Leave a comment »
I kept hearing about Encounters at the End of the World at the end of last year, and once I realized it was another Werner Herzog movie, I added it to my queue. His tendency to go to the far ends of the world continues in this film, and that tendency is…
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Posted by Jeri at 02:11:11 pm | movies, netflix/tivo, 2008 | Leave a comment »
May 15, 2009
Some of these movies I don't even remember well enough (not to speak of them, but of how long ago I watched them) to give a proper review, so I thought I'd go through the last few movies I watched while on disability and give small reviews for each of th…
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Posted by Jeri at 05:25:36 pm | movies, netflix/tivo, 2008, 2009 | 1 comment »
April 29, 2009
If there was a documentary I should have seen in the theater last year, this was it. I regret now that I waited to see it on my tiny portable DVD player. I have gotten lazy about driving out to Irvine when the good movies are in town and need to be bet…
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Posted by Jeri at 06:11:50 pm | movies, 2008 | 2 comments »
March 19, 2009
I had a feeling The Visitor wasn't a movie I wanted to drive far to see, so I decided to wait until it came out on DVD. I stand behind that choice because it was a smaller, quieter movie, and I don't necessarily feel that its visuals or emotions were st…
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March 11, 2009
I know, I know, I edited the title, but I just didn't want any weird hits on the website. Ric and I judiciously decided to wait for the cheap theater to see this movie. I knew that this was a Kevin Smith movie, so I was pretty sure that the movie woul…
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Posted by Jeri at 01:37:40 pm | movies, 2008 | 1 comment »
In the opening sequence of the fall, we see some sort of accident happening without understanding exactly what is going on, except that we see a man and his horse fall all the way down to the waters below a high bridge. The sequence is not in color, is…
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Posted by Jeri at 01:17:28 pm | movies, netflix/tivo, 2008 | Leave a comment »
February 6, 2009
I watched this movie right before Christmas as I was wrapping gifts. Let me tell you, I don't recommend watching it around a festive holiday, because it can really get you down. I had heard about it online and found out that it was going to be aired on…
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Posted by Jeri at 05:58:46 pm | movies, netflix/tivo, 2008 | Leave a comment »
January 28, 2009
I have been hearing varied responses to this movie, which is about a young woman named Kym who leaves rehab in time to go to her sister's wedding. The story lasts through the day before the wedding to the day after, and through it we slowly learn about…
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Posted by Jeri at 05:01:38 pm | movies, 2008 | 1 comment »
January 26, 2009
I can't say I deserve to write anything about this movie since I drifted off a few times during it. Long day, physically. So I'll make it short and perhaps revisit it one day. What I did see was very good. Of course, this is about the famous intervie…
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Posted by Jeri at 03:50:33 pm | movies, 2008 | Leave a comment »
January 23, 2009
We went to see The Wrestler with my sister a couple of weekends back. I anticipated this movie more because of director Darren Aronofsky, whose work I try to follow, and less because I used to watch wrestling on a regular basis. Yep, that's little know…
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January 21, 2009
When I went to look for a photo to represent this movie, all I could find were photos of Kate and Leo looking at each other with loving eyes, so above is the closest I could get to the overall feel of the movie. Where are the photos of them screaming at…
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January 15, 2009
My sister and I went to see The Reader over Christmas Break. I'll admit upfront that I had heard there was a Kate Winslet movie out and decided to see it without actually knowing what it was about. The only thing I knew was that this wasn't the Kate Wi…
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Posted by Jeri at 04:59:23 pm | movies, 2008 | Leave a comment »
January 12, 2009
I guess I didn't need to drive out to Orange to see this movie, but that's okay - I got in for the pre-noon price of $6, which is pretty good these days. My sister and I went to see this together. I didn't have the highest hopes for it because I felt l…
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Posted by Jeri at 03:36:14 pm | movies, 2008 | 1 comment »
January 8, 2009
Here's the movie that it seemed everyone was looking forward to. I mean, come on, it's got Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett - how can it go wrong? As obvious by the movie's title, there's an interesting premise to this story, which is about Benjamin, who i…
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Posted by Jeri at 05:11:27 pm | movies, 2008 | 1 comment »
January 6, 2009
One of the first movies I saw on Christmas break was Doubt. While everyone else was scrambling to shop, I was cozy in a theater chair, watching some fine actors do what they do. In this instance, they were portraying two nuns and a priest.
A young…
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Posted by Jeri at 04:25:29 pm | movies, 2008 | 2 comments »
December 23, 2008
I heard some so-so reviews of Changeling, and I was busy planning a trip to the UK at the time, so I waited to see Changeling at the dollar theater. I somewhat regret that due to the couple that consisted of a woman who was bilingual and a man who only…
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Posted by Jeri at 04:13:53 pm | movies, 2008 | 1 comment »
December 12, 2008
Honestly, neither the story nor the commercials for Slumdog Millionaire really made me want to see it, but I go to see all movies that Danny Boyle makes, so I went to see it. I like that he goes in completely different directions from movie to movie. I…
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Posted by Jeri at 04:45:49 pm | movies, 2008 | 1 comment »
December 10, 2008
We were in the mood to see anything remotely interesting on Friday, so we went to see Bolt. We got there to see the movie at a specific time, but when we ordered the tickets, the guy told us that it was a 3D show. As some of you know, I would rather sac…
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Posted by Jeri at 03:29:30 pm | movies, 2008 | Leave a comment »
December 8, 2008
It seems that all weekends in December are destined to be busy ones. Poor Ric. Luckily, I managed to leave him at home a couple of times so that he didn't have to be out as much as I was.
On Friday after walking on a completely dark track, Amy and m…
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Posted by Jeri at 02:14:02 pm | movies, 2008 | Leave a comment »
December 5, 2008
While we were up in the mountains for Ric's 30th birthday, we made sure to stop off at the Blue Jay theater to check out Quantum of Solace during its opening weekend. Ric wouldn't miss that for the world, especially after how much he loved Casin-o Royal…
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Posted by Jeri at 03:30:55 pm | movies, 2008 | 1 comment »
December 1, 2008
Well, I just realized that some of the movies in the review queue were still from before our trip to the UK (speaking of which, I've still got more to recap of that) and realized that was two months ago. I need to get some of this out of my system and s…
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Posted by Jeri at 12:01:26 pm | movies, netflix/tivo, 2008, with the agadonis | 2 comments »
Let the Right One In is a Swedish vampire movie. I know, it sounds weird. It kind of is. This is probably one of the most subdued films about vampires that I've seen. We're first introduced to Oskar, who is a social outcast. He's picked on in schoo…
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November 18, 2008
With this season's movie selection being much slimmer than others, I just haven't been heading out to the theater as often as I used to. But, I determined to get myself going more often (when I'm actually around to go!) again. So my sister and I drove…
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Posted by Jeri at 11:12:47 am | movies, 2008 | 1 comment »
September 16, 2008
We waited to see Hancock at the dollar theater. Since superhero movies are more and more common these days, it's nice when we get to see one about a hero we've never seen in comic books. This one, played by Will Smith, is a guy who has superhero powers…
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Posted by Jeri at 02:21:39 pm | movies, 2008 | Leave a comment »
September 15, 2008
I had the highest of hopes for Burn After Reading to signal the return of the great Coen comedy. It has the classic formula of people trying to get what they long for by any means possible, and of course things go wrong. Unfortunately, the voice of rea…
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Posted by Jeri at 03:09:57 pm | movies, 2008 | 1 comment »
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